Where Tech Isn't So Technical…
Case I decided that I wanted to get the first case that I really wanted and should have bought when I did my build initially. I said then that if I were to ever build a PC, that this is the case. Just something classy looking about this case and I have finally been able…
So, a proud soon-to-be uncle was happy that his soon-to-be nephew asked me to build a gaming PC for him. I helped him pick out the parts, picked them up from MicroCenter and built it for him. This is my journey… Look at those parts! Little did I know at the time, MicroCenter gave me…
So, recently, I left Fry’s after almost 4 years. I don’t miss working at Fry’s except for 1 thing: custom builds. They were all different and all cool. I don’t think that part will go away for a while. Well, I have my own build. I have installed a few new things since the last…
Introduction This is the fall 2020 update. This the 9th numbered update to Windows 10 and perhaps the smallest. That doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have any new features, but I believe these are incremental updates with a purposeful endgame… that endgame is Windows Fluent design language. Microsoft is introducing changes incrementally over time whereas…
Introduction Welcome back to another enthusiast blog that I am publishing today. This one has to do with PC overclocking. In order to show the effects of overclocking, I used Cinebench r20 and Unigine Superposition graphics benchmark. The other point I am going to make is that overclocking the CPU (in my case) has no…
Ah, CPUs… Example CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3800X I am not a true fan of Geekbench. It is a good tool, but results are often varied and not a true representation of a CPU’s true power. Most PC hardware review sites do not use Geekbench for any metrics. The only reason I have done it…
Introduction I have wondered about this for a while now. Even though I have a spreadsheet of benchmarks from my various Macs and PCs over the years, including where Windows 10 is installed in BootCamp, I have never written about performance differences in each OS. Is macOS a performance deterrent or does Windows just run…
I’m back for another Gaming performance post. This is the grandaddy of them all between a very similar card in the Radeon RX 570 and the Radeon Pro 580X (found in the 2019 iMac). First, here are the test systems used in this set of benchmarks: Test systems: iMac Intel Core i9-9900k @ 3.6GHz 24GB…
So, it happens to the best of us. You know, when you come back to your PC and turn on the monitor and find this lovely message: “Boot device not found.” Well, it happened to me tonight. When I wanted to just relax and play some GTA V, I am greeted with this ugly message….
I admit that I am a sucker for video card reviews and might be somewhat jealous from time to time, but I am not a high frame-rate snob and a budget gamer at that: so these seem to be a good match. I thought I’d go over the numbers from my personal gaming system with…